Improvement in corsets



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIon JOHN WILLIAM LANE, -OF BRISTOL, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD BRIMBLE, OF

LONDON, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,902, dated January 14, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WILLIAM LANE, of Bristol, in the Kingdom of England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stays or Corsets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying two sheets of drawing and to the letters of reference niarked thereon.

It is well known that stays or corsets are generally fastened or'secured in the front by means ot' hooks and eyes xed to strips of steel which are sewed inside the stay or corset, with the hooks andA corresponding eyes projecting through slit-sin the fabric of which the stay or corset is made.

In consequence ofczthe strips of steel being sewed in it is necessary to unpick the sewing and take the strips out when the stay or corset has to be washed or cleaned, and after the cleansing is finished to sew them in again; and the object of this invention is to obviate this trouble of unpickin g and resewing every time the corset or i pair. of st'ays has to be washed or cleaned; and this I effect in the following manner:

Instead of sewin g in the steels, marked a, Figures 1 and 2 on the accompanying sheets of drawing, I hem or bind the outer corners b, (Fig 1 being a view of the inside, and Fig. 2 a view of the outside of the stay or corset,) in order to form pockets c, Fig. 1, to receive the ends of the steels, and then double the edges of the stay or corset over the inserted steels a, Fig. 2, the hooks e on one side and the eyes fon the other side being made to protrude Having described the nature and-partici.

lars of the said invention, I desire it to be understood that I claimf In a corset provided with steels at the front edge for claspin g the two parts together, the eyelets formed in the extreme edge of the fabric and also back of the steel, the said two rows of eyelets corresponding to each other when the said extreme edge isfturnedl over the steels, and the said turned-over edge, secured by means of a lacing through the said two rows of eyelets, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

' J OIIN WILLIAM LANE.

Witnesses: i

ROBERT JOHN WrTnEnsPoo EDWIN DUGGETT. 

